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Author: Kitso Rantao

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The Afrilennial Podcast is about celebrating innovation, entrepreneurship, progressive businesses and developments related to Africa. It is about creating an open network for entrepreneurs to learn, share, grow and inspire innovation, collaboration and lessons through their stories.Each episode features a different expatriate African entrepreneur from all over the world sharing their business insights and journey. Tune in as Kitso Rantao unpacks the innovation, motivation and disruptive solutions from remarkable entrepreneurs and organizations.
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During the podcast season break, we covered some great content from the Africa Tech Summit which happened in Rwanda Kigali. In this episode I spoke to Oluwatosin Amusan, the co-founder and Product Development Lead at Mylaw.ng - a technology enabled platform where individuals and businesses can access legal services from the comfort of any device.Tosin describes her journey running a Law Tech Startup and shares insights on the significance of the legal framework for startups in a Legal Masterclass hosted by the Africa Law and Tech Network. This podcast is powered by Afrilennia Consult.Support the show (https://patreon.com/StartUpAfricaPodcast?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=creatorshare)
Welcome to Part three of the Startup Africa Podcast. In this episode, I continue my conversation with Yomi Olowe from Life Most and African Business Chamber of Commerce, China. He addresses some concerns that investors have regarding whether they are going to make money when investing in Africa "The only place where you are able to make more than 200% on your investment is Africa. The West and China may be at their peak but Africa is only starting , so there is actually a lot of room to grow a."Highlights some of the policies that are making several African countries more business friendly business friendly and gives an overview of where investment can flow into African startups Tune in to the final episode in the Africa Investment Climate Series. Support the show (https://patreon.com/StartUpAfricaPodcast?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=creatorshare)
Closing off the #2019 with part TWO the the #AfricaInvestmentClimate Series on the #StartUpAFRICA Podcast with the African Business Chamber China.Whereas the source of #Africaninvestment is often seen as coming from the West or the East, in this episode, Olowe 'Yomi Marcus of Lifemost International gives an interesting take on a third option: The #AfricanDiaspora. He highlights different ways to empower #entreprenuers in the African diaspora so as to convert their remittance into valuable and impactful investments on the continent.He gives key insights on how to foster an investment shift from a government to government level to private businesses  and how to leverage these government relations to create a framework for entrepreneurial investment to thrive.Olowe 'Yomi Marcus is the managing director and CEO of Lifemost International which specializes in supplies of renewable energy and medical consumable goods in #Africa. He serves as the Vice president of the African Business Chamber of Commerce and is an active leader in the #NigerianDiaspora community, serving both as President of #NigeriaAssociation, East China and Co-founder of #NigeriaExpats, Shanghai.For general enquiries email: [email protected] Support the show (https://patreon.com/StartUpAfricaPodcast?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=creatorshare)
This week is the start of an exciting startupAFRICA Magazine THREE part mini-series with the African Business Chamber  China titled the  Africa Investment Climate. I speak to Moses Og, #serialentrepreneur, investor and President of the African Business Chamber who has been living and conducting business in China for 12 years. Moses is the Co-founder & the CEO of software company, Levosoft Technologies and subsequently founded a crowd-funding platform for African in diaspora 'Afristartups' with the aim to invest in Africa's top 100 startups. In part 1 of the Africa Investment Climate Series, we discuss:-how to leverage and direct African remittance into the continent into key investments?-what the the investment climate in Africa is like currently and how to leverage the #investmentclimate for African #Startups ?-And what some of the perceived barriers to investment and ho to overcome them?Tune in as he unpacks his insights and experience in this first ever mini-series! Moses Og: www.afbiz.com / www.levosofts.comSupport the show (https://patreon.com/StartUpAfricaPodcast?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=creatorshare)
-What is the intersection between being an entrepreneur and being a creative ? -It is easy to sell as a creative, but how do you go about owning your work and the rights to your creative work?-Given that the creative industry runs on technology, how do we foster the creation of a technological age in Africa in order to create sustainable generational wealth  ? Akio Sanga is a mechatronics engineer and branding design entrepreneur from Zambia, he founded Kairo while in China on the strong belief that innovation creates opportunity.Kizito Chimbetete is a creative entrepreneur and film maker of 10 years, originally from Zimbabwe,  he founded Kwela films in Harare, and subsequently, The Teller’s Tribe in Shanghai. Tune in as I speak to both of them about creative ways of monetizing, innovating as a creative and entreprenuer !Support the show (https://patreon.com/StartUpAfricaPodcast?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=creatorshare)
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